SPD working groups and Jusos are planning an anti-Klingbeil motion

According to information from “Spiegel”, a broad alliance of working groups has been formed in the SPD that wants to prevent Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil from running again for the party chairmanship. The news magazine quoted from two proposals for the SPD party conference in January.

“In the current situation, the chairmanship of the SPD at the federal level may not be held at the same time as a ministerial office within the federal government,” says the first application, which, according to the report, is supported by the Working Group for Employment (AfA), the SPD Women, the AG 60+, the Working Group on Migration and Diversity, the Working Group for Education and the Working Group SPD queer.

Jusos for women as sole chairwoman of the SPD

The SPD must strengthen its political independence, its programmatic credibility and its ability to act as a party of workers, the application continues. This requires “a clear organizational and personnel separation between the leadership of the party and the exercise of government offices at the federal level”.

The SPD youth organization Jusos went one step further in a similar motion and advocated for a woman to be the sole chairwoman of the SPD, the news magazine reported. According to the report, the application states that the participation of women in top positions must be ensured. “The strongest instrument for this would be a single female leader, which we would expressly welcome.”